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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:33:36 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Referencing Files In Bash Using UNC format?
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Bob McGowan wrote:
> David White wrote:
> >[...]
> > I want to make references from bash on NT to a file that is on a shared
> > drive on a remote system. In a DOS box, I would use the UNC format
> > \\computername\sharename\path\file.ext to get at this file. Is there a
> > special cygnus format for this sort of thing?
> >[...]
> The same format appears to work (for Cygwin 1.0, CD), but you need to
> quote it:
> 
>   ls '\\system\directory'

As it's usual on U*X systems you may use forward slashes:

    ls //system/directory

Corinna

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